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** Event re-post** Collaborative Event - IET Women's Network and Huddersfield University - Creativity and Soft Skills in the Engineering World

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** Kindly note, the university would like to see more teachers, career advisors, parents and pupils attending this free event event! **






Refreshments are provided and great networking opportunities will be provided.






The IET Women's Network is pleased to announce that it will be participating in another joint event with the University of Huddersfield - CREATIVITY AND SOFT SKILLS IN THE ENGINEERING WORLD



Thursday 20 March 2014 from 6.30 pm


SPEAKERS:



Alicia Sanchez Espin – GlaxoSmithKline

Sumaira Sultan Minhas – University of Manchester



Engineering is more than screw drivers and boiler suits. We are surrounded by engineering products so this intellectual profession is suitable and useful for both men and women. There is a shortage of engineers in the UK industry however only a limited number of students show an interest on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. The speakers will explore reasons why some students are not choosing a career in Engineering, various ways about how the profession is perceived and diversity of career paths that they could follow within industry because there are many ways of using creativity and soft skills in the engineering world. The speakers will also talk about their experiences in industry in academia and how a general day of work looks like.



Come along and listen to their views.



Biographies:


Mrs Alicia Sanchez Espin - is a Project Engineer at GlaxoSmithKline, as part of their Future Leaders Program. She holds a MEng Degree in Electronics and Control, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena in Spain. Alicia has worked as an Electronics Design Engineer in an Engineering Consultancy firm; Sales Support Engineer in an Energy Conversion Solutions Supplier and as an Electrical Engineer in Irvine and Panama with GSK. She also really enjoys creative activities (such as oil painting, fashion design and dancing). Alicia has been a volunteer working with troubled children and is a STEM ambassador.



Ms Sumaira Minhas –is a PHD scholar and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester doing research about improving the end-user experience of mash-up development. She was awarded MSc in Software Engineering and BSc in Computer Science from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Sumaira worked as an Assistant Professor at Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan and as a Senior Research Analyst in Ovex Technologies (a sister company of En Pointe Technologies, USA). Sumaira enjoys creative writing, baking, travelling (the farthest place she has visited was Hawaii) and taking part in 27 miles bike riding challenge from Peak District to Ashbourne.



All Students and Non-IET Members Are Welcome to this Free Event.



VENUE:



ROOM CW2-17, Canal West Building, Level 3, University Of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH

FOOD AND DRINKS WILL PRECEDE LECTURE 6.00 PM FOR 6:30 PM

Please register online http://www.hud.ac.uk/ce/events/

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